Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3031 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:42:26AM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Tuesday 2008-02-05 at 14:33 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:40:53PM -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> > > If Novell will sell SuSE with some legal drivers which are now left
> > > out,
> >
> > What do you mean by this?
>
> I guess he means proprietary software/drivers/whatever for multimedia, for 
> instance, like movies DVDs, paying whomever has the license. Or the 
> nvidia/ati drivers.

It is Novell's public position that closed source Linux kernel drivers
violate the license of the copyright holders of the Linux kernel.  And
as such, will not distribute them.

So in a box or not, that is not something that Novell could do.

thanks,

greg k-h
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